Re: including fonts

2016-01-03 Thread cogmission (David Ray)
last is used. > > Tom > > > > On 3-1-2016 17:09, cogmission (David Ray) wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> I Believe in CSS, once you establish the family you can access the >> sub-types via type keywords? >> ...via >> >> -fx-font-weight: bold,bo

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2015-07-29 Thread cogmission (David Ray)
Hi, I just wanted to share some opinions close to my heart... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exposing-myth-case-javafx-emulated-lfs-david-ray?published=t Cheers, David -- *With kind regards,* David Ray Java Solutions Architect *Cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* Sponsor of: HTM.java

The Case for JavaFX & Emulated L&Fs (across iOS, Android etc.)

2015-07-29 Thread cogmission (David Ray)
eld, if something is said often enough - it starts to be accepted as truth. I for one would like to stand up against some of these misnomers. I apologize for my emphatic expression of these points - I have been holding this in for a long time :-P -- *With kind regards,* David Ray Java Solu

Re: Show case: JFX on iOS and Android

2013-11-18 Thread David Ray
Awesome work Tobias! :) On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Tobias Bley wrote: > For all who do not follow me on twitter: a few screenshots concerning JFX on > iOS and Android: http://blog.software4java.com/?p=148#comment-4629 > > Best regards, > Tobi > > > > -- > Tobias Bley > Chief Executiv

Re: JavaFX on iOS and Android - are we there yet?

2013-10-22 Thread David Ray
t comes down to being an engineering nightmare or so complex that the dependability or upgradeability is not there, then I just don't see it as important enough to warrant the abandonment of the effort? Regards, David On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:51 PM, David Ray wrote: > I thi

Re: JavaFX on iOS and Android - are we there yet?

2013-10-22 Thread David Ray
I think you may be facing an "absolute" requirement which is placing demands on you to replicate the exact look and feel of one or both mobile environments? I'm not sure?? > Even the most fab skins or CSS is not going to get us away from the need to > integrate JavaFX controls with true native c

Re: JavaFX on iOS and Android - are we there yet?

2013-10-22 Thread David Ray
+1 re: Native L&F. IMO also there is nothing sacred about the "exactness" of Apple's ui. They 'll be changing it up a lot a also. Being someone who prefers custom looks to bland native looks anyway, I never did get the "sacredness" of repeating "mirror-lookalike" grey :). Just my opinion, I'm s

Re: Why is almost everything in the API final

2013-09-03 Thread David Ray
When you have a new version of your app to distribute, you would repackage it using the same tool you did before - maybe specifying a new JVM target (if you would like to update the JVM that gets bundled with the app). Then upload your app to the Apple App Store and voila' :) (Ok so there's the

Re: Why is almost everything in the API final

2013-09-03 Thread David Ray
> I would strongly recommend leaving the shared JRE install world behind. As a suggestion, try JWrapper - we have flawless installs now, even using an OSGI deployment procedure! Bundled JVMs are really the only dependable way to go now it seems? David On Sep 3, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Richard Bair

Re: Why is almost everything in the API final

2013-09-03 Thread David Ray
By "we" I meant the place where I work… (not JWrapper Inc.)! :) David On Sep 3, 2013, at 1:28 PM, David Ray wrote: >> I would strongly recommend leaving the shared JRE install world behind. > > As a suggestion, try JWrapper - we have flawless installs now, even using

Re: Why is almost everything in the API final

2013-09-03 Thread David Ray
Final methods more so take the control out of the hands of the many developers, and places it in the hands of the API designers. If there is an issue, and demands are high - would we rather A. Report the issue and wait for the original API designer's development process to acknowledge, repair,

Re: Level of detail

2013-07-30 Thread David Ray
Hi Richard, A brief question. Is there a resource you could point me to for details about the concepts and mechanisms you just mentioned? Namely: 1. The "Renderer" you referred to (not sure if its a concept or concrete object) 2. Picking. Of course I've seen the term used, but would like to un

Re: Mixing 2D and 3D

2013-07-23 Thread David Ray
And Voila! Webstart fails again! "Cannot launch the application…" http://javafx.com"; codebase="http://www.interactivemesh.org/models/webstartjfx/"; href="fxTuxCube-0.6_FX3D.jnlp"> FXTuxCube 0.6 InteractiveMesh e.K. FXTuxCube 0.6

Re: JavaFX 8 Progress

2013-07-19 Thread David Ray
ws and Linux. > Worked like magic. It doesn't include JavaFX yet, though, even though the Mac > JRE is 1.7.0u25. > > Jeff > > On Jul 18, 2013, at 4:20 PM, David Ray wrote: > >> JWrapper (no plug - I don't work for them or own stock) solves all of this - >&

Re: Java Deployment (was Re: JavaFX 8 Progress)

2013-07-18 Thread David Ray
A list of JWrapper's features: Oracle, are you ready to buy these guys yet? If you don't, we will… :) Easily deploy Java as native apps (for free) But lets break that down... Easily... To us, this means being able to build for everything, on anything - true cross platform builds. Multiple dev

Re: Java Deployment (was Re: JavaFX 8 Progress)

2013-07-18 Thread David Ray
So you're saying, once I create my new JavaFX app with all the new beautiful and wondrous JavaFX goodies - I can do what? Sit at home and look at it? :) David On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Daniel Zwolenski wrote: > There are definitely credible alternatives. The problem is currently the >

Re: Mixing 2D and 3D

2013-07-18 Thread David Ray
I'm not a 3D expert but my "gut" tells me that the two pipelines should remain distinct as you say. I can't imagine the evolution of such different functions converging in such a way where the semantic treatment of the two will coincide in a clean, simple and unconfusing manner. That only seems

Re: JavaFX 8 Progress

2013-07-18 Thread David Ray
rabilities and tightening up the security model should be > spent on advancing JavaFX on mobiles and tablets. > > -jct > > - Original Message - > From: > "Daniel Zwolenski" > > To: > "David Ray" > Cc: > "mike.ehrenb...@barch

Re: JavaFX 8 Progress

2013-07-18 Thread David Ray
m are (or will be) working on these >> right? They are effectively desktop technologies and no other team has any >> interest in them I'm guessing? >> >> I'd assume if they're not on the JFX roadmap, they're not on the Java >> roadmap? >> >>

Re: JavaFX 8 Progress

2013-07-17 Thread David Ray
Hi Richard, I don't see any mention of WebStart and JavaFX on the milestone list - are issues surrounding (and suffocating :)) WebStart going to addressed as part of the JDK release 8 instead? David Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Richard Bair wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Our

Re: Making Color Final (and Paint too, for all intents and purposes)

2013-07-12 Thread David Ray
+1 David Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Richard Bair wrote: > I have two different changes I might want to make, both of which are > definitely incompatible for subclasses, but are otherwise source compatible. > > public abstract class Paint { >Paint() { } // <--- Add

Re: [Review request] Make Cell.updateItem(item, empty) public, rather than protected

2013-07-09 Thread David Ray
I don't see what the problem is? Why must you reduce the visibility? You wouldn't do that for any other public method you've overridden? That would be clinging to a memory of what the API used to be. I would understand if I had to set my protected method public after updating my jdk - it's neces

Re: iOS: current state (Read: Who is Oracle's CoreText Guy?) :)

2013-07-03 Thread David Ray
That is great news. Thanks Steve for the update. Cheers, David Sent from my iPhone On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:02 AM, steve.x.northo...@oracle.com wrote: > Hi all, > > Felipe Heidrich is the text guy. The focus has been on getting native text > rendering working first on the desktop. That said,

Re: OpenJFX on iOS using RoboVM

2013-05-21 Thread David Ray
Thank you so much for your hard work! David Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Niklas Therning wrote: > Source code and build instructions for the BrickBreaker JavaFX sample on > iOS/RoboVM is now available online [1]. The static libs included in that > download have been compil